Western Political Tradition Course in Chicago

The search for the “good life” through politics has been a human quest since antiquity. Social Sciences 2 course concerns political judgment and the values which underpin it.

One’s education as a citizen of the state is the foundation of the classical formulation of a liberal arts education. The central objective of this course is the education of such citizens, those who participate through public judgment in shaping the political world. Such an education requires an understanding of the founding documents of the American political system as well as other seminal works of Western thought.